Society and culture: general

Drawing upon a personal collection of more than 300 letters exchanged between her parents and other family members across the U.

From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of Americas most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality.

This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for a postcivil rights generation.

As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether its jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shirt, chances are college kids made it cool.

In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks.

How do the lives of indigenous peoples relate to the romanticized role of Indians in Brazilian history, politics, and cultural production?

Singing John Browns Body as they marched to war, Union soldiers sought to steel themselves in the face of impending death.

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice systems liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion?

Journalists and novelists responded to the pervasive social changes of the 1960s in America with a variety of experiments in nonfiction.

Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681,790 to just 45,594 a drop of 93 percent.

In 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, There is something very singular in the constitution of the Negroes, which renders them not liable to this fever.

In this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jakobi Williams demonstrates that the citys Black Power movement was both a response to and an extension of the citys civil rights movement.

In the 1960s, policymakers and mental health experts joined forces to participate in President Lyndon Johnsons War on Poverty.

Examining three interconnected case studies, Tamar Carroll powerfully demonstrates the ability of grassroots community activism to bridge racial and cultural differences and effect social change.

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nations capital.

From its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence.

In 1912 James Reese Europe made history by conducting his 125member Clef Club Orchestra at Carnegie Hall.

Too often, depictions of womens rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women entrepreneurs.

In this book, Sharada Balachandran Orihuela examines property ownership and its connections to citizenship, race and slavery, and piracy as seen through the lens of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American literature.

Elizabeth B.

Queer history is a living practice.

For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by northern emancipation.

In this sweeping work, Elliott Young traces the pivotal century of Chinese migration to the Americas, beginning with the 1840s at the start of the coolie trade and ending during World War II.

In 1961, the U.

The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt.

Adas explores the relationship between millenarianism and violent protest by focusing on five case studies representing a wide range of social, political, and economic systems.

A pillar of radical activism in nineteenth-century America, Amy Kirby Post (180289) participated in a wide range of movements and labored tirelessly to orchestrate ties between issues, causes, and activists.

The story of white flight and the neglect of Black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades.

What can local histories of interracial conflict and collaboration teach us about the potential for urban equity and social justice in the future?

Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices.

In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide.

In this comprehensive history, R.

The story of white flight and the neglect of Black urban neighborhoods has been well told by urban historians in recent decades.

In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how secondhand goods sold at thrift stores, flea markets, and garage sales came to be both profitable and culturally influential.

In this eye-opening cultural history, Brian Tochterman examines competing narratives that shaped postWorld War II New York City.

With the collapse of communism, a new world seemed to open for the peoples of East Central Europe.

In this innovative and revealing study of midcentury American sex and culture, Amanda Littauer traces the origins of the sexual revolution of the 1960s.

Although the LGBT movement has made rapid gains in the United States, LGBT people continue to face discrimination in faith communities.

During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.

In his 1903 hit Congo Love Song, James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans.

The natural beauty of Austin, Texas, has always been central to the citys identity.

In this book, Stephanie J.

In the volatility of the Civil War, the federal government opened its payrolls to women.

Conceived at the same conference that produced the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Student Interracial Ministry (SIM) was a national organization devoted to dismantling Jim Crow while simultaneously advancing American Protestant mainline churches approach to race.

Charles N.

One method of American territory expansion in the U.

Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, politicians, and nongovernmental organizations have often oversimplified climate change and obfuscated the processes that drive mass migration.

Across the borderlands of the early American northeast, New England, New France, and Native nations deployed women with surprising frequency to the front lines of wars that determined control of North America.

Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.

From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory.